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After Year Zero:On Postwar German Thought
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JAMESON’S LEGENDARY LECTURES ON GERMAN THOUGHT, TOGETHER IN ONE VOLUME FOR THE FIRST TIME
In this series of accessible lectures, Fredric Jameson explores German philosophy and critical theory as it developed in the wake of World War Two. Focusing on key thinkers — Horkheimer, Adorno, Heidegger, Habermas, Marcuse, Beuys, Enzensberger, Kluge, and Sloterdijk — Jameson weaves close readings of texts with anecdotes and aperçus to craft a narrative about the uses of theory. He delves into world-historical phenomena, such as the legacy of Nazism and the formation of the European Union, in a story that stretches from the postwar division of Germany to its reunification at the end of the Cold War.
After Year Zero is a vital account of the German critical tradition, as understood by the “most significant Marxist thinker in American culture.”
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Jameson is one of the world’s most eminent cultural theorists, but he is also a peerless literary critic in the classical sense of the term.
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Probably the most important cultural critic writing in English today. It can be truly said that nothing cultural is alien to him.
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The most significant Marxist thinker in American culture.
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Jameson has long been the most alluring American literary theorist, the only one to match the French in style and depth.
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Jameson thinks dialectically in the strong sense, in the way we are all supposed to think but almost no one does.
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The most muscular of writers
Times Literary Supplement